1 rich Libsyn https://www.libsyn.com 90 600 In late 2019, an explosion rumbled across a remote vista in Somalia, disturbing the low brush and red-brown dirt surrounding a lonely American airfield. It rattled the bolts of the decades-old base and buckled the knees of the National Guard soldiers tasked with defending it. Capt. London Nagai – the commander of the unit – and his Charlie Troopers knew the attack was coming. A truck, up-armored and sickly yellow against its trailing dust cloud, broke off from the group. Unbeknownst to the soldiers inside the base, that truck carried one of the largest known vehicle-borne explosive devices on the African continent. And it was bound for them. In 2019, as rumbles about the Global War on Terror ending, regular troops – many of whom are police officers, fire fighters, college students, and delivery drivers in their civilian jobs – found themselves at the tip of that long, gnarled spear that many Americans don’t realize is firmly planted in the near center of Somalia. Appearing in this episode: Drew F. Lawrence, Capt. London Nagai, Dr. Tricia Brown, W.J. Hennigan, the soldiers of C Troop, Rebecca Kheel, and Steve Beynon Fire Watch | A Military.com Podcast https://www.military.com/podcasts/fire-watch <iframe title="Libsyn Player" style="border: none" src="//html5-player.libsyn.com/embed/episode/id/25594059/height/90/theme/custom/thumbnail/yes/direction/forward/render-playlist/no/custom-color/88AA3C/" height="90" width="600" scrolling="no" allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen oallowfullscreen msallowfullscreen></iframe> https://assets.libsyn.com/secure/content/144230262